Camp Oswego

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Camp Oswego was the fourth of seven weekend-long festivals hosted by the rock band Phish. The event took place on July 17 and 18, 1999, at the Oswego County Airport in Volney, New York, a small rural upstate town. 65,000 people attended. At the time, it was also the longest Phish concert ever.

Phish was the only headlining band at the event, performing five sets of music over two nights. Second stage bands included the Del McCoury Band, Ozomatli, and others. Fans camped out onsite in tents, creating a community of fans that became one of the largest cities in New York over the weekend.

Band and audience attempted to break the world record for the largest number of people doing the same dance at one time during the song "Meatstick," but the record was not broken (representatives from the Guinness Book of World Records were on hand).

The following weekend just a few towns away, Woodstock 1999 was making new headlines as 200,000 people rioted and burned the concert grounds. New York Governor George Pataki made mention of the peacefulness of the Phish show as compared to the debacle at Woodstock.